Comps

good luck to everyone taking the Comps this week.

here are all the questions.

Oneonta's down

 https://cnycentral.com/news/local/suny-oneonta-closing-for-two-weeks-after-covid-19-outbreak

ONEONTA, N.Y. — SUNY Oneonta is closing for two weeks for in-person instruction after several large parties lead to a COVID-19 outbreak infecting 3 percent of the campus community, according to state officials.

It is the first campus in New York to close due to a virus outbreak.

wow, harsh

 Good for them enforcing the rules, I guess, but I wonder whether it actually reduces transmission in Binghamton (as opposed to in the dorms).

Several Binghamton University students have been ordered to leave the Vestal campus for violating COVID-19 guidelines.

University president Harvey Stenger said "nine or ten students have lost the privilege of living on campus." He said "they've been asked to go home." He said they will be able to take their classes online.

Speaking on WNBF Radio's Binghamton Now program Friday, Stenger said three of the cases involved parents who broke the rules on move-in day. He said parents were "not allowed in the building but three of these parents decided that they weren't going to listen to those rules and they went in and their sons or daughters are not living in the dorm."

Read More: Binghamton University Takes Action for COVID-19 Rule Violations | https://wnbf.com/binghamton-university-takes-action-on-covid-19-rule-violations/?utm_source=tsmclip&utm_medium=referral

That isn't that many cases ...

(we were already at 28 before we even started ... https://www.binghamton.edu/restarting-binghamton/covid-19-dashboard.html)

https://www.recordonline.com/story/news/politics/albany/2020/08/27/covid-19-could-force-ny-colleges-online-here-new-guidelines/5645051002/ 

ALBANY – Colleges and universities in New York will be forced into remote learning for at least two weeks if enough people test positive for COVID-19, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Thursday.

As higher-education institutions reopen across the state, Cuomo set a closure threshold for the first time, forcing a college to temporarily cancel in-person classes if a campus over a two-week period:

• has more than 100 positive coronavirus cases, or
• an outbreak equal to more than 5% of the population.

The campus will be required to stick to remote learning for two weeks, at which point the state will “reassess the situation,” he said.

SPEL graduate conference

 https://spelgraduateconference.wordpress.com/

https://philevents.org/event/show/81466

CFP: 2020 Graduate Student Philosophy Conference at Binghamton University, Nov 7-8

Topic areas

• Applied Ethics
• Meta-Ethics
• Normative Ethics
• Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality
• Philosophy of Law
• Social and Political Philosophy
• Value Theory, Miscellaneous

Details

2020 Graduate Student Philosophy Conference at Binghamton University Nov 7-8, 2020

Binghamton University’s philosophy graduate program invites submissions for its 2020 graduate student conference. Because of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic this conference will be completely virtual over Zoom, and we have added an extra day to our conference schedule to fight screen fatigue for all participants.

The conference theme broadly focuses on our program’s specialization in Social, Political Ethical and Legal (SPEL) philosophy. We hope to host a diversity of graduate research that asks important questions and starts meaningful dialogues on SPEL topics.

Giving the keynote address will be Kate Manne of Cornell University, author of Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny and the forthcoming Entitled: How White Male Privilege Hurts Women.

Acceptable subgenres of SPEL themes include, but are not limited to:

·         Applied social and political philosophy

·         Applied ethics

·         Normative ethics

·         Metaethics

·         Critical theory

·         Feminist philosophy

·         Philosophy of race

·         Social epistemology

·         Philosophy of education

·         Theories of risk

Submissions in these areas from any philosophical tradition are welcome.

Submissions must include an anonymized full paper of about 3000 words, with a view for a 20-minute presentation followed by 10-20-minute Q&A.

In your submitting email please include:

·         Name

·         University affiliation

·         Current level of graduate studies

·          SPEL themes your paper fits into.

Each submission will be anonymously reviewed by conference committee members. Email all submissions to Bingspelconf@gmail.com no later than August 31, 2020.

https://spelgraduateconference.wordpress.com/

Arendt and Biden

 

Bingflex workshop for TAs

 Dear Colleagues,

This fall, we will be offering in-person classes in a mode we are calling Bingflex. Most of these are offered in-person and online in alternate weeks, and in weeks in which the class meets in-person, some students may be online. That will require faculty and TAs teaching these courses to manage students in the classroom and students online at the same time. We have Classroom technology Assistants (CTAs) who will help instructors manage the two audiences, but teaching these courses will nevertheless require facility with Zoom.

To help our TAs, the Center for Learning and Teaching is offering a series of workshops. One will be offered Tuesday, August 18 (see below). Others will be announced for the week of August 24. While TAs cannot be required to attend workshops before August 24, they may want to do so to get a head start on the semester. So I would encourage you to bring this opportunity to the attention of any TA who will be teaching with you this fall.

Don

BingFlex Course Development for Graduate Students (Teaching Assistants and Instructors of Record)

Tuesday, August 18, 10:00 – 11:30am

In this session, the Center for Learning & Teaching (CLT) will describe the pedagogical and technological elements that you should consider when planning to teach a BingFlex course. In addition, you will see examples of instructional strategies that may work for your particular course. This session will focus on the graduate student experience, either TAs or instructors of record.   

A BingFlex class combines online and face-to-face instruction simultaneously into one class. The class content must be designed intentionally so students in both the classroom and online sections are engaged with equivalent learning experiences.

Students are able to participate in class in different ways:

* as a face-to-face learner (physically present in the classroom)
* as a distance learner (via real-time, video-conferencing or engaging with class materials at a later time)
* or as a flexible learner (for health-related reasons)

Register for the event to receive the Zoom link.

Thank you

Don

Parking permit reminder

 You can purchase your parking permit online today at the Transportation and Parking Services (TAPS) portal. It’s easy and convenient! To log in, you will need your Binghamton University PODS ID.

Lana del Rey as legal philosophy texts

 

Continuing on a trend of celebrities and academic texts, I present, Lana Del Rey as works in legal philosophy/jurisprudence: pic.twitter.com/cUgAJEwTga

— Lucille E. "Luce" Nguyen (@NguyenLuce) August 7, 2020